[U-Boot-Users] AMD MirrorBit FLASH Support?
Nghiem, Tien
TNghiem at oerlikon.ca
Thu May 1 15:02:31 CEST 2003
Hi Brad,
I have a custom board MPC8260 that uses the flash width 64 bits with 4 chips (28F640J3) as it describes in the application note Intel 292263-002 (http://www.intel.com/design/flcomp/applnots/29226302.pdf). Do you think that I can use the flash driver ppmc8260/strataflash.c directly without modification?
Thank you
Tien Nghiem
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Kemp [mailto:Brad.Kemp at Seranoa.com]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 11:01 AM
To: tguilliams at sbs.com; Frederic Soulier
Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] AMD MirrorBit FLASH Support?
There is CFI support for the Intel command set in ppmc8260/strataflash.c
and esd/cpic440/strataflash.c.
This driver correctly sizes the flash width and number of chips.
What is missing is an abstraction to support multiple command sets.
Brad
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Guilliams [mailto:tguilliams at sbs.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 4:38 PM
> To: Frederic Soulier
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] AMD MirrorBit FLASH Support?
>
>
>
> Thanks for the reply Frederic.
>
> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 01:12, Frederic Soulier wrote:
> > If you want full support for Mirrorbit flashes in U-Boot,
> you have simply to
> > code the write buffering feature.
> > I do not use this, so standard AMD/Fujitsu/ST code is
> working fine for me.
> >
>
> We're finding a bit more to it than that. The algorithms for
> operations
> on the MirrorBit have changed a bit from other AMD chips. Some
> operations rely upon toggle bits, different command definitions. The
> "correct" error-checking is what's really effected. I was porting the
> StrataFlash driver for the PPMC8260 board because we have
> some versions
> of our board with StrataFlash and some AMD MirrorBit as well as the
> driver implements the CFI interface.
>
> My plan is to have a strataflash/mirrorbit driver with buffer writing
> support. I just need to finish it up and submit it to
> Wolfgang. As our
> board support grows, I'm adding upon this driver for other chipset
> support. At some point, it would be nice to have a flash driver with
> CFI for all chips that support it.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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